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  • Peter Edelman on Waging Another War on Poverty
    January 14, 2014
    Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.
  • Morning Reads: NSA Spying Doesn't Work; Money Makes People Selfish
    January 14, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ.
  • Stars, Wonks Focus on the Fact That One in Three Americans Lives in or Near Poverty
    January 13, 2014
    A new report aims to raise awareness of the widespread economic insecurity faced by American women and their children.
  • Morning Reads: Other Shoe to Drop for Christie?; Racist Roots of Pot Prohibition
    January 13, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ.
  • Setting the Working Class Against the Poor Doesn't Work Anymore
    January 10, 2014
    | Robert Reich
    Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.
  • Morning Reads: Congress Looks Like a Million Bucks and Duck Dynasty's Fake Rednecks
    January 10, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ.
  • Marco Rubio's "Anti-Poverty" Agenda
    January 8, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    The presidential hopeful unveiled his new ideas, but it turns out they're not so new after all.
  • How We Won — and Lost — the War on Poverty, in 6 Charts
    January 8, 2014
    | Erika Eichelberger, Jaeah Lee and AJ Vincenz
    The war on poverty helped raise millions above the poverty line, but where do we stand today?
  • The Next Steps in the War on Poverty
    January 7, 2014
    | Greg Kaufmann
    A poverty activist asks how we might create the political will to make significant strides in the fight against poverty.
  • How Close to Poverty Are You?
    January 7, 2014
    | John Light
    Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates.


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